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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One thousand dollars.
  • abbreviation kelvin
  • abbreviation kicker
  • abbreviation kilobyte
  • abbreviation kilometer
  • abbreviation kindergarten
  • abbreviation Games king
  • abbreviation Bible Kings
  • abbreviation strikeout

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  • noun The eleventh letter of the English alphabet, called kay and written in the Latin script.
  • noun The ordinal number eleventh, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called kay and written in the Latin script.
  • noun The eleventh letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
  • noun chemistry Symbol for potassium.
  • noun Symbol for kelvin, the SI unit of thermodynamic temperature. Specifically (U+212A version)
  • noun baseball The statistic for strikeouts.
  • noun biochemistry IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for lysine.
  • noun geology Symbol for hydraulic conductivity.
  • noun Thousand.
  • noun US The initial letter of the call sign of radio stations west of the Mississippi (see also W)
  • noun over, waiting for reply
  • abbreviation education, US Kindergarten.
  • abbreviation computing Kilo-, 1,024.
  • abbreviation computing A single character message used as an acknowledgement (ACK), meaning "previous message received and understood."
  • abbreviation Go ahead, over: an indication that a message is complete and a reply is awaited.
  • abbreviation baseball Strikeouts.
  • abbreviation chess King.
  • abbreviation biology Carrying capacity.
  • abbreviation slang OK.
  • abbreviation knitting knit
  • noun law, informal A contract.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From New Latin kalium, potassium; see hypokalemia.]

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[k(ilo–).]

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Examples

  • K (ˆ x) K² iff, for all individuals d ˆˆ DM and for all

    Discourse Representation Theory Geurts, Bart 2007

  • There are two ways of spelling out the interpretation of so-called duplex conditions of the form K (ˆ x) K².

    Discourse Representation Theory Geurts, Bart 2007

  • The 13th CGPM (1967) adopted the name kelvin (symbol K) instead of "degree Kelvin" (symbol °K) and defined the unit of thermodynamic temperature as follows:

    Kelvin 2007

  • Since the spring in K is now extended further than before, so too, according to the principle of equivalence, must the spring in K′ be.

    RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968

  • It is a simple exercise in Newtonian mechanics to show that, so far as purely mechanical experiments within K and K′ are con - cerned, there is no way of distinguishing between K and K′.

    RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968

  • At once this permitted a general principle of relativity embracing all motion, for if an experimenter in K, or in K′, could no longer determine the extent to which physical effects were due to uniform acceleration and to what extent to uniform gravitation, acceleration need no longer be regarded as absolute.

    RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968

  • For, consider equal particles suspended from equal springs in K and K′.

    RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968

  • Wöhler's results agree closely with the rule, k_ {max.} = ½ [Delta] + [root] (K²-n [Delta] K), where n is a constant which varies from 1.3 to 2 in various qualities of iron and steel.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • K N, assumes the position of A K* N on the right side.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

  • K K*, and the compressed lung, the operation of paracentesis thoracis should be performed at the point K, or between K and the latissimus dorsi muscle, so as to avoid any possibility of wounding the heart.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

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  • Jubjub commented on the word K

    Girl

    January 2, 2010

  • alexz commented on the word K

    in printing, CMYK, K is black, also known as 'key' for the letter K.

    March 9, 2015